Dinesh Kamath's Editorial 'Sickening sycophancy' that was published in Newsband

Sickening sycophancy

Manmohan Singh claims Rahul Gandhi as the ideal Prime Minister. Is it sycophancy or large heartedness to openly say that he would work under Rahul Gandhi? There is no dearth of voices within the Congress imploring Rahul Gandhi to take Dr. Singh’s place unmindful of the insult to a Prime Minister still in office.

After the dismal performance of Congress in States, Singh should have left the post long back at least to keep his prestige and name at high level. But day by day, latest with the recent pronouncement of ready to work under Rahul Gandhi, he has proved himself unfit for the Chair he occupies.

It is true that Sonia Gandhi nominated Manmohan Singh to be Prime Minister in her place. It is a different matter that in the public perception she is the leader and he is the one being led. One has witnessed many a times Congress first family’s attitude to leadership issues. There is about the clan members a born-to-rule air that has instilled sycophancy and worse among Congresspersons. This is a blatant mockery of the political system we have gone back to monarchy in the form Of Gandhi and family. The same is going on in the state governance Father to son. There seems to be no experience or qualification necessary to become a MP, MLA, or Minister.

It is okay if we just depend on one family for the PM’s post as long as the family is able to produce someone worthy of becoming PM. But nobody would want a family which just likes to be at the helm of the power and not serve the country.

Nehru-Gandhi family has done hardly anything for this country, they have just enjoyed the power. They are just living a lavish life at the expense of tax payers’ money. Just see the state of our country after the independence of 67 years; we need food security bill to ensure that everyone should get food in this country.

Rahul Gandhi who is being considered for PMship has yet to understand the complexities of the multifarious economic, political, military, external affairs and many other problems of governance facing the country. As a matter of fact the media is casting aspersions on Narendra Modi and making fun of him when it must be aware of his superior political stature, knowledge and governance experience.

In India, merit is at a discount. Whether it is admission to an educational institution, employment or even promotion - everything depends on reservation. Same is the case when it comes to occupying the post of PM.

The point worthy of discussion is how over six long decades, dynastic politics and sycophancy, stemming from the top has seeped into and contaminated every single democratic institution in the country, whether the police or the railways - that have all become spitting images of the grand old party - where the same levels of sycophancy is displayed and where positions that need to be based on merit to serve people have ended up becoming family owned fiefdoms, with the result that none of them are accountable anymore and all are corrupt.